The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet
A quietly dramatic dissection of the way past loves can haunt the present The Daily Telegraph This Rebecca-esque ghost story puts at its heart the gnawing insecurities that any act of intimacy soon invites The Independent O'Farrell's writing has a crystalline precision of idiom - there isn't one image that fails to ignite recognition Independent on Sunday O'Farrell has honourably equalled the success of her first novel, After You'd Gone, with a story that is certainly as absorbing - and just as beautifully written Sunday Express
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of five novels, AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, and THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She lives in Edinburgh.